Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-01
THE VOICE OF FATE.

Everything points to the utter and
overwhelming defeat of the Republican
party at the National polls in 1888. This
will not only be defeat. 1t will be disin-
tegration. 1t will be the total destruc-
ton of the Republican party organization.
The signs of the approach of this glorious
catastrophe, this most excellent calam-
ity, are inscribed in letters of light upon
every quarter of the political horizon.
The very nature of the Republican
party demands an anchorage in the
places OF power. Once cast out, it is
cast out forever. Its very breath is the
atmosphere of public patronage, and the
veins and arteries of its life blood are
avenues of public plunder. Deprived of
these elements OF natural sustenance the
party becomes corpse, and the corpse
is even now in state of putrefaction.
Up to the grand outburst of popular in
dignation which found glorious culmi-
nation in the election of Grover Cleveland
and the reinstatement of Democracy, the
career of the Republican party was the
success of political crime. The causes
of this criminal domination are not hard
to find. In the records of the nation they
are written in characters of inefaceable
infamy. The Republican party was lifted
t,AA lx, Ov,o1 ioforft1pn or,d
for twenty-four years its supremacy was
public crime. From the time it grasped
the reins Of government, it had but one
object, and that object was the
continuation of its power To
attain this, no means were too unscrupu-
lous, no political outrage was too daring.
The pacifcation of the nation, the welfare
Of the people, were as nothing. The sole
object of the administration of a great
and free people, was to maintain the Re-
publican party in power, that the leaders
of that party might plunder the National
Treasury. To do this it was necessary to
perpetuate intestine strife. The Repub-
lican leaders we'll knew that the instant
the people were t.once again united,
that they would again rule. And so
the old war feeling was seduously nursed,
sectionalism was fostered, the North and
the South were antagonised anew; the
bloody shirt was made the National
standard, and "the country was in dan
ger" always. A political despotism was
inaugurated, and supported for long
years by the power it had wrested
from the people. The exigencies of
war were ever invoked; the
powers of popular government were
warped at the will of die
tators; Capitalization was born, and
the Government of the United States be-
came a personal usurpation. Republi
can President succeeded Republican
President, and each one but strengthened
the dictatorship for his successor. The
leaders of the Republican party reveled
in public plunder. Congress was hot
bed of corruption. Public legislation
was but private greed. A power
full class of corporations sprang
into existence, created and fostered
by Republican opportunity. These cor
porations were made the convenient
cloak of gigantic political corruption,
and through their medium millions
upon millions of dollars were annually
stolen from the public treasury. For
long years this plunder went on, and so
strongly had the party of theft entrenched
itself behind government breastworks
that the people failed to dislodge it. |
But National shame was spur in the
sides of the people, and persistent effort
at last conquered. Three years ago the !
party was driven from the |
places it had so long corrupted, and the |
people again were in power. The clear
ing of the Augean stable was Herculean
task indeed, but it has been performed.
The house is swept and garnished, and
will ever remain so. Republican misrule
and public plunder will never again clasp
hands in the National Capital. The great
props of the Republican party are
Knocked from under it. 1t can rely on
neither administration support, or
,onupt corporations. 1t has no power
With the people. The popular voice is
he voice of fate. The Republican party
s doomed.